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The offer came in the form of a letter and an invitation to Mihailovic´ to come to Belgrade for talks with Nedic. ´ 78 Mihailovic´ did not come to Belgrade but instead sent a delegation which stayed in Belgrade for a few days, reaching an agreement with the Nedic´ government. With this, Mihailovic´ received some funds from Nedic. ´ 79 The Germans wanted to reach an agreement with Mihailovic’s ´ Chetniks directly; accordingly, a meeting took place between representatives of the German military commander in Serbia and Draža Mihailovic´ on 11 November 1941 in the village of Divci.

In mid-August, the Germans brought Dragiša Cvetkovic´ (from Niš) and Vladko Ma ek (from Zagreb) to Belgrade to discuss the Serbian government crisis. The Germans were interested in what Ma ek thought the reaction would be in NDH ruling circles to the appointment of Nedic. ´ 24 Meanwhile, the Germans also contacted Nedic´ to see if he 22 The Collaborationist Regime of Milan Nedic´ would be willing to assume the leadership post in a reconstructed government. 26 Thus, on 27 August 1941, Nedic´ agreed to assume the post of minister-president in the government and two days later, on the recommendation of administrative headquarters, Danckelmann dissolved the government of commissars and appointed a ‘government of national salvation’ headed by Nedic.

Most of those who had held responsible administrative posts at the county and district levels continued in the same functions during the occupation. After the territorial settlement of 20/21 May 1941, Serbia was returned to its 1912 borders, embracing about 51,000 sq. 81 million inhabitants (about 2 million fewer than the Independent State of Croatia or Sabrina P. Ramet and Sladjana Lazic´ 21 NDH); between 50 per cent and 60 per cent of Yugoslavia’s Serbs lived in this rump Serbian state. 17 Three days later, with the launch of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, German occupation authorities in Serbia escalated the fight against members of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY) and their collaborators.